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December 2006
Dirt Dog Needs a Bath
Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:57 P GMT-06
My dirt dog got to the point where it wouldn't stop acting erratically and no amount of blowing on the sensors or vacuuming it would help. So I got my air compressor out as the manual stated and thoroughly cleaned the whole thing off with that
Category: Robotics
Christmas Light Power 2006
Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:38 P GMT-06
Here are my christmas light power statistics for this year.
Back Yard Trees:
7.89 A rms
6 Hours per day
5.68 KWH per day
Front decoration:
0.186 A rms
6 Hours per day
0.134 KWH per day
Living Room Tree:
2.08 A rms
12 Hours per day
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Category: Home Projects
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Dirt Dog
Monday, 18 December 2006 9:39 P GMT-06
I bought one of the new dirt dog workshop cleaning robots from iRobot and it arrived last week. We are having an addition put on our house, and they just finished the drywall hanging and plastering. The new part of the house was covered i
Category: Robotics
Broken Garage Door Opener 2
Monday, 18 December 2006 9:28 P GMT-06
We had the broken garage door opener looked at last week. It has a fried circuit board. The cost of a circuit board is $175 and the cost of a brand new garage door opener installed is $300. Since the thing is only 5 years old, the c
Category: Home Projects
Broken Garage Door Opener
Wednesday, 6 December 2006 10:09 P GMT-06
Right in the midst of the work on our home for our new addition our garage door opener stopped working. The tracks had to be disconnected and reconnected a couple of times and the opener was left supported from below during construction.
Category: Home Projects